Conclusion

A miraculous, subtle point of the All-Wise Qur’an that is manifested through coincidences’1  is as follows:

In  the  All-Wise  Qur’an,  the  divine  names  of  Allah,  Merciful  (Rahman), Compassionate  (Rahim),  Sustainer  (Rabb),  and  He  (Hu)  in  place  of  Allah,  are mentioned  approximately four  thousand  times  in  all.  The  second  type  of  abjad, reckoned  according to the arrangement of the alphabet, makes the value of “In the Name of God, the  Merciful, the Compassionate” around four thousand also. Small fractions of large numbers do not spoil ‘coincidence’, so have been disregarded. Also, together  with  the  two  conjunctival  waw’s  within  “Alif.  Lam.  Mim.”,  it  makes approximately  two  hundred  and  eighty.  In  addition  to  coinciding  with  both  the approximately two hundred and eighty instances of the word Allah in Sura al-Baqara, and the around two hundred  and eighty verses of the Sura,  if  reckoned with the second sort of abjad reckoning, it again makes about four thousand.  That coincides both with the five famous divine names mentioned above, and if the  fractions  are disregarded, with the numerical value of “In the Name of God, the Merciful,  the Compassionate.” That is to say, according to this mystery of ‘coincidence,’ “Alif. Lam. Mim.” is both a title denoting the One it signifies, and a name for al-Baqara, and a name of the Qur’an, and a concise index of both of them, and a sample, summary and  seed  of  both,  and  a  summary  of  “In  the  Name  of  God,  the  Merciful,  the Compassionate.”

According to the well-known Abjad system, “In the Name of God, the Merciful,

the Compassionate” is equal in numerical value to the name of Sustainer. Similarly, if the  doubled  Ra  in  “the  Merciful,  the  Compassionate  (ar-Rahman,  ar-Rahim)”  is counted twice, it becomes nine hundred and ninety and a key to numerous important mysteries – with its nineteen letters, the key to nineteen thousand worlds.

Among the subtle ‘coincidences’ of the word Allah in the Qur’an of Miraculous

Exposition is that in the whole Qur’an eighty instances of the

word at the beginning of the bottom line of pages correspond to each other in patterns. So too do eighty instances of the name at the end of the bottom line look to each other in the same way. And again fifty-five instances of the word Allah right in the centre of the bottom line fall one on top of the other, uniting as though to make a single instance of the name. At the start of the last line a single and sometimes three-letter word numbers, with gaps, twenty-five, thus when added to the coinciding fifty-five at the middle of the lines, makes a ‘coincidence’ of eighty; this makes a coincidence of eighty both at the beginning of the line and at the end.  Could such a subtle, fine, orderly, symmetrical, miraculous ‘coincidence’ be without wisdom or subtlety? God forbid,  such a thing could  not be! Most certainly,  significant  treasuries  could be opened up with the tip of these coincidences.

O our Sustainer! Do not take us to task if we forget or do wrong.(2:282)

Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; indeed, You are All-Knowing, All-Wise.(2:32)

S a i d  N u r s i

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1   ‘Coincidence’ (tevâfuk): the correspondence of letters or words in lines or patterns on one or several pages. (Tr.)